Oral History Interviews

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Barton Henry A1

Henry A. Barton - Session I

Interviewed by: 
Charles Weiner
Interview date: 
Tuesday, 3 March 1970
Location: 
American Institute of Physics, New York City, New York

Family background; undergraduate and graduate studies at Princeton University: electrical engineering 1921, graduate research on ionization of argon and HC1, spectroscopic interests, (MA 1924, PhD 1925); developmental research as engineer for American Telephone and Telegraph Laboratories (1921–23); National Research Council Fellow at Harvard University (1925–27); Bartol Research Foundation Fellow (1927–29), research on “impact of protons on atoms and molecules.” Assistant professor at Cornell University (1929–31), high voltage x-ray research, visit to Cavendish Laboratory, associations (193

Barton Henry A1

Henry A. Barton - Session II

Interviewed by: 
Charles Weiner
Interview date: 
Monday, 16 March 1970
Location: 
Barton's home, Princeton, New Jersey

Family background; undergraduate and graduate studies at Princeton University: electrical engineering 1921, graduate research on ionization of argon and HC1, spectroscopic interests (MA 1924, PhD 1925); developmental research as engineer for American Telephone and Telegraph Laboratories (1921–1923); National Research Council Fellow at Harvard University (1925–1927); Bartol Research Foundation Fellow (1927–1929), research on impact of protons on atoms and molecules.